Simon Cowell has urged Britney Spears to “go home to her mother”.
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The music mogul predicted the troubled singer’s fall from grace months ago – after she shaved her head, checked in and out of rehab and became embroiled in a bitter custody battle with ex-husband Kevin Federline – and would have advised her to stay away from her “stupid friends” if he was her manager.
He said: “From where I sit, you could see it coming a long time ago. I said six months ago that she should go home.
“I’d have said, ‘Stay with your mother, don’t go out with your stupid friends, just live normally.’ You’d be amazed – you live normally and suddenly everything becomes normal.”
Simon, 48, also would have whisked Britney – who was hospitalised last week after refusing to hand back her children to Kevin – away from the public glare to help get her life back together.
Speaking on holiday in Barbados, he added to The Sun: “I would have taken her away somewhere quiet for six months. The problem with Britney is that I don’t think there’s anyone in her life that she listens to.”
The X Factor judge believes the pop star’s problems need to be put into perspective when you consider the plight of others in the world.
He said: “I feel bad for Britney. But then I see the real world where people are struggling and you have to temper that with, ‘Stop being stupid, go home. Life isn’t that bad.'”
